90 TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART II 



Another exhibit showed pictures of the same rat taken twelve days 

 apart. The first picture showed the rat as it looked after it had been fed 

 for thirty days on a diet suitable in every respect except that it was free 

 from water soluble vitamines — a substance found in milk and succulent 

 fruits and vegetables. The rat became so weak it could hardly stand, and 

 would have died in a few hours. Its weight declined from 3.2 to 1.7 ounces. 

 The second picture showed the same rat twelve days later after vitamines 

 had been fed, with health and vigor restored and a weight of 2.9 ounces. 



To further drive in the value of milk, a poster with the attractive pic- 

 ture bore the following verse: 



"I know a small girl, and what do you think! 

 Coffee and tea were her usual drink; 

 But when in the plan she used milk in her diet, 

 Her health was improved and her nerves were more quiet." 



All through the week the home economics program went on with educa- 

 tional addresses, demonstrations and bulletins upstairs. Downstairs 

 babies were being scored, and hat demonstrations and style shows were 

 drawing crowds. The "Milk Fairy Pageant" in the morning; the "High 

 School Clothes Line" and the pageant, "The Legend of the Wild Rose," in 

 the afternoon. (By the way, the directions for the Milk Fairy Pageant 

 and the High School Clothes Line may be had from the Extension Depart- 

 ment, at Ames, on request.) 



The Health Clown, in the Red Cross room, made quite a hit with the 

 children. Dressed in white dotted with carrots, beets, radishes, etc., and 

 with a whitewashed face artistically caricatured with red, the clown stood 

 on the platform with scales and measures, a trained nurse, and a secre- 

 tary who handed out red crosses with directions for health on the reverse 

 side. The children were weighed and measured by the nurse, a card sent 

 to the secretary, who made out their crosses and handed them to the 

 clown to pin on them. Bobby was sent to the nurse with the word that 

 he was six pounds underweight. Sorrowfully, she gave him a card and 

 Introduced him to the clown: "Roco, this is Bobby. Bobby is six pounds 

 underweight." Roco's face fell. "No!" he cried; "not six pounds under- 

 weight, Bobby!" Bobby appeared to sense the misfortune and hung his 

 head. Then Roco pulled him over to his knee: "Let me tell you, Bobby; 

 you must drink milk! Don't like milk! Well, you try sprinkling a little 

 cinnamon over it and you'll like it. You want to get muscle, Bobby. Feel 

 my muscle," etc. The psychology of the health clown was that children 

 do not care whether they are healthy or not, but they want to be big and 

 strong, and his low-spoken talks to each individual child seemed most 

 effective. 



The Little Theater drew a big crowd each day. The play, "The Neigh- 

 bors," took especially well. 



The wool growers' exhibit in agricultural hall was a revelation to many. 

 The only difficulty seemed to be that no one could buy the exhibits. We 

 wanted to tuck a lovely brown checked single blanket under our own arm 

 and go off with it for a couch cover, taking with it enough of the warm 

 wool socks to hang for every child and grandchild at Christmas time. It 

 was rather surprising to see how many women and some men seemed to 

 know something of carding and spinning. 



